skink

plural skinks

1. Northern EnglandScotlandA shin of beef.

   lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast

2. ScotlandobsoleteA soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.

   For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated

   1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis

3. ScotlandbroadlyUsually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.

   Cullen skink

plural skinks

1. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.

present singular third person skinks · participle present skinking · participle past skinked · past skinked

1. ScotlandambitransitiveTo serve (a drink).

   [W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.

   1900, Theophrastus, “Of Foulness”, in [anonymous], transl., edited by David J[osiah] Brewer, Edward A. Allen, and William Schuyler, The World’s Best Essays from the Earliest Period to the Present Time […], royal edition, volume X, St. Louis, Mo.: Ferd[inand] P. Kaiser, →OCLC, page 3769

   1 more example

   Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.

   1640 November 20 (date licensed, Gregorian calendar; published 1652), James Shirley, “The Imposture”, in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […], volume V, London: John Murray, […], published 1833, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 246

2. Northern EnglandScotlandobsoletetransitiveTo give (something) as a present.

plural skinks

1. obsoleteA drink.